Govt, journalists should design roadmap to address difficulties faced by media fraternity: Firdous Ashiq.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting (SAPM) Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday insisted that it was important that journalist bodies, government and all stakeholders of the media industry come together and design a roadmap to address the difficulties being faced by the media fraternity in the country.

Firdous Ashiq Awan was expressing these views while talking to media persons after her visit to the house of Fayyaz Ali, a private TV channel reporter who had passed away earlier this week after a suffering a heart attack. Ali was reportedly terminated days before his death and was not being paid.

The special assistant to the prime minister on information and broadcasting said that it was "extremely tragic that a man, who kept fulfilling his responsibilities, was paid after his death". "This is a moment of reflection for us," she said.

"It is extremely important that journalist bodies, media workers, government and all stakeholders sit together and address all the problems that are being faced by our workers, owners of media houses along with societal challenges, Pakistan's economic condition and the financial situation of our private sector , 'she said.

"After that, a roadmap should be created with a...